President Bouteflika looks vulnerable ahead of the elections as politicians fall out
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 5 May decision to end months of political sniping by sacking his former campaign manager turned political rival, Ali Benflis, has allowed Algerians to refocus on domestic politics in the run-up to the presidential election...
The collapse of Abdelmoumen Rafik Khalifa's El Khalifa Group (EKG) has seen investors mobbing banks in search of their savings, French intelligence leaks about power brokers' roles in EKG's rise - plus a local aviation crisis.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika basks in the glow of an unprecedented visit from French President Jacques Chirac, welcomed as a hero on 2-4 March after his standoff with the United States over Iraq. Meanwhile, Boutef's friend and high-profile Energy and Mi...
The President is pleased with the polls but hasn't yet won the war
The Islamist vote at the legislative elections on 30 May will show whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has really transformed Algerian politics. Until the last minute, many electors were still debating whether to vote: a high abstention rate could only...
Algeria's progress against the Islamist underground was confirmed by the killing last month of Antar Zouabri, the leader of the Groupe Islamique Armé. This was a coup for the ambitious commander of the First Military Region, General Fodil Cherif, a...
In a watershed vote on 15 January, the French parliament declared 19 March a day of commemoration of the victims of the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian independence struggles. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, fresh from courting the United States for milit...
Floods made large parts of Algiers a sea of mud on 10 November. They were a nightmare for ordinary citizens, many of whom dug out neighbours with their bare hands - and for Algeria's leaders, who again seemed incapable of responding adequately to crisis.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has again threatened to resign as Kabyle protests mobilise hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and rival power-brokers enfeeble his presidency.
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